How to Use rumple in a Sentence

rumple

verb

• He rumpled her hair affectionately.
• We’re no longer the young couple, dressed in Sunday best, who showed up 39 years ago, but now the older one, rumpled and grayed.
  — Beth Thames | [e-mail], al.com, 26 June 2019
• It's lived-in — her earthy brown hair is rumpled, her eyes hazily rimmed with charcoal and lips often left bare.
  — Meirav Devash, Allure, 10 Sep. 2017
• His clothes were rumpled, and his dark hair was long and scraggly under his engineer’s cap.
  — Rick Rojas and Kate Pastor, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2017
• Saddam rose from his seat and carefully straightened his pea coat, making sure it wasn’t rumpled from the brief ride.
  — William Bardenwerper, Newsweek, 13 June 2017
• With his suit jacket off and his dress shirt rumpled from a night of arguing to no avail with the referees, Rivers stood with his back against a wall with a stat sheet folded in his hands and vented.
  — Broderick Turner, latimes.com, 16 Mar. 2018
• In a corral surrounded by a waffling, loose-weave wire fence some eight feet tall, a chocolate-brown alpaca lay in a heap, matted with blood, its long neck rumpled like a cast-off knee-high.
  — Dana Goodyear, The New Yorker, 13 Feb. 2017
• The rest of the photos in the Post’s carousel feature similar scenes of convalescence: a shot of Weinstein’s rumpled hospital bed.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 17 Dec. 2019
• It was returned to me with its chiffon over-layer in shreds and my previously thriving silk buds were rumpled, drooping, and wilted—like a flower bed dug up by the neighbor’s dog.
  — Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 16 Mar. 2020
• Anthony’s lawyer, Marty Lumetta (Richard Schiff, the picture of rumpled, put-upon frustration), has also worked too many of these cases to be optimistic.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, Detroit Free Press, 6 Feb. 2020
• Anthony’s lawyer, Marty Lumetta (Richard Schiff, the picture of rumpled, put-upon frustration), has also worked too many of these cases to be optimistic.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, Detroit Free Press, 6 Feb. 2020
• Instead of being a preppy partner to chinos or the tasteful pop of pattern under a neutral suit, Malik wore his gingham shirt rumpled and untucked with a pair of paint-splatter jeans and a black baseball cap while in NYC this weekend.
  — Megan Gustashaw, GQ, 20 June 2017
• Tall, urbane, self-effacing McCary and rumpled Mooney—who shows up for our interview wearing a vintage sweatshirt covered with purple seals—have been a package deal since childhood.
  — Dylan Kai Dempsey, HWD, 24 July 2017
• Silver-haired and often rumpled, Lopez Obrador, 65, the son of provincial shopkeepers, is a lifelong politician and avid historian who embraces personal austerity, opting to travel on commercial airlines.
  — Patrick J. McDonnell, latimes.com, 5 June 2019
• He rumpled her hair affectionately.
• We’re no longer the young couple, dressed in Sunday best, who showed up 39 years ago, but now the older one, rumpled and grayed.
  — Beth Thames | [e-mail], al.com, 26 June 2019
• It's lived-in — her earthy brown hair is rumpled, her eyes hazily rimmed with charcoal and lips often left bare.
  — Meirav Devash, Allure, 10 Sep. 2017
• His clothes were rumpled, and his dark hair was long and scraggly under his engineer’s cap.
  — Rick Rojas and Kate Pastor, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2017
• Saddam rose from his seat and carefully straightened his pea coat, making sure it wasn’t rumpled from the brief ride.
  — William Bardenwerper, Newsweek, 13 June 2017
• With his suit jacket off and his dress shirt rumpled from a night of arguing to no avail with the referees, Rivers stood with his back against a wall with a stat sheet folded in his hands and vented.
  — Broderick Turner, latimes.com, 16 Mar. 2018
• In a corral surrounded by a waffling, loose-weave wire fence some eight feet tall, a chocolate-brown alpaca lay in a heap, matted with blood, its long neck rumpled like a cast-off knee-high.
  — Dana Goodyear, The New Yorker, 13 Feb. 2017
• The rest of the photos in the Post’s carousel feature similar scenes of convalescence: a shot of Weinstein’s rumpled hospital bed.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 17 Dec. 2019
• It was returned to me with its chiffon over-layer in shreds and my previously thriving silk buds were rumpled, drooping, and wilted—like a flower bed dug up by the neighbor’s dog.
  — Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 16 Mar. 2020
• Anthony’s lawyer, Marty Lumetta (Richard Schiff, the picture of rumpled, put-upon frustration), has also worked too many of these cases to be optimistic.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, Detroit Free Press, 6 Feb. 2020
• Anthony’s lawyer, Marty Lumetta (Richard Schiff, the picture of rumpled, put-upon frustration), has also worked too many of these cases to be optimistic.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, Detroit Free Press, 6 Feb. 2020
• Instead of being a preppy partner to chinos or the tasteful pop of pattern under a neutral suit, Malik wore his gingham shirt rumpled and untucked with a pair of paint-splatter jeans and a black baseball cap while in NYC this weekend.
  — Megan Gustashaw, GQ, 20 June 2017
• Tall, urbane, self-effacing McCary and rumpled Mooney—who shows up for our interview wearing a vintage sweatshirt covered with purple seals—have been a package deal since childhood.
  — Dylan Kai Dempsey, HWD, 24 July 2017
• Silver-haired and often rumpled, Lopez Obrador, 65, the son of provincial shopkeepers, is a lifelong politician and avid historian who embraces personal austerity, opting to travel on commercial airlines.
  — Patrick J. McDonnell, latimes.com, 5 June 2019

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